Students listen in the activity.
Future Deductions
Students try to uncover their partner's secret animal based upon deductive reasoning using future tense questions.
Whose Introduction
Students fill out a worksheet about themselves. The class has to match the worksheet (likes/dislikes/activities) to the student.
Find The Couple
This is a simple activity where students ask each other passive-voiced questions to find out which two students on their worksheets are a couple.
Haetataki
'Haetataki' means 'fly-swatter' in Japanese. This is a competitive game that forces students to listen carefully while practicing both telling time and numbers in general.
Kantan Interview
Kantan means easy. Students interview two boys, girls and teachers to complete their questionnaire worksheet.
Code Breaker
Students listen to the ALT and use a code to convert numbers to letters. Then they have to compete to guess what word the letters spell.
You Will Get Your Fortune
Students ask ALT and JTE for their fortunes by picking one out of three cards.
Can You Find A Pair
Students ask each other "Can you..." questions until they find their pair.
5 W's & H
Students practice asking and answering questions using the 5Ws and H question words.
Memory Challenge
This activity has two parts: 1.) Students aim to remember a series of sentences, 2.) Students use the grammar and a constructed picture to describe a holiday scene to their class.
Horoscope Review
Students review first year grammar points by playing Janken and finding their horoscopes.
Stereo Noise
The class listens to a group of students announce in unison what they want to be. The class must listen carefully to and try to decode each student's occupation.
Matsuko Deluxe Birthday
Students compete in rows to score points for being the first team to relay celebrity birthdays back to the ALT.
Infinitive Poker
This activity is a high stakes card game that gets kids using infinitives.
Washing His Face
Students practice using present progressive sentences and reviewing
Seasonal Food (Shun) Game
Students guess the seasonal foods of Japan using passive voice.
Janken Swap
A card game where students janken and win cards from their opponents.
Memory
Match the cards with the 'Why' question to the 'Because' answer, followed by a short interview game.
Tic Tac Bingo
Students practice listening to present perfect sentences while playing bingo according to questions the ALT/JTE ask.
What's Wrong? Board Game
Students play a board game to practice telling each other about their ailments and giving each other advice.
Balancing Act
Students try to balance the object on their body part while practicing the corresponding vocabulary.
Superhero Powers
Students write a description of a superhero and then try to draw their friend’s superhero.
Shadow Guess
A silhouette quiz with the entire class followed by a similar quiz done in pairs.
Imagination Quiz
Students make pairs and take turns asking each other questions to find out what the other student is thinking about.
What Is The Best Interview
Students fill in their own answers and then ask their classmates questions such as, "What's the best movie you have ever seen?"
Your Monkey?
In this game, students secretly draw pictures on cards and try to guess the artist of each card. Students learn to understand, ask, and respond to simple questions of ownership/possession.
Animal Coloring
Children color animals according to the ALT's instructions.
I'm Full
Students trade cards with each other in order to get a full meal and declare, "I'm full!"
Bedroom Drawing
Students listen to their partner’s instructions and attempt to draw a replica of a bedroom.
Relative Park Drawing
Students listen to a description of a park scene and they must draw it.
Fun With Prepositions
Using teamwork, students search for pictures around the room and describe it to their team members.
Hot Seat
A student sits at the front of the classroom and answers questions. Other students try to guess their answers.
Strange Patient
This a simple guessing game that has students playing the role of a patient who kind of has an idea of what sickness they have, and the doctor is trying to guess whether or not they are lying.
First Letter Phonics
Students play Karuta to help them understand the way letters work.
Phone Janken Out
Student engage in a fun conversational activity that practices an easy phone conversation.
Ouch
Students learn how to describe their symptoms by playing Janken games.
Eat See Visit
Students learn a little about other countries, their food and famous places through playing a modified version of shinkeisuijaku (pairs).
Infinitive Cards
Students talk to each other, trying to match the sentence fragments on their cards.
"How Many Apples?" Janken
Students will try to "collect" apples by playing janken and asking "How many apples?"
Pick a Side
Students move to the left or right side of the classroom depending on what they can or cannot do.
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